# `io.usefulapi/api2pdf` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.usefulapi/api2pdf
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.usefulapi/api2pdf
- Version: 1.16.3 (active)
- Publisher: io.usefulapi (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/m190/usefulapi-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T19:23:16.065Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Api2Pdf MCP by usefulapi
MCP server for Api2Pdf — generate PDFs & images from HTML, URLs or office files; merge, barcodes.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:34:54.528Z over streamable-http.

**16 tools: 14 can delete or cancel things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 14 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Deletes or cancels (14)

Removes, cancels or revokes something. Claude Code: deny.

### `api2pdf_add_password`

- The name "api2pdf_add_password" says "add": a word for a change.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Encrypt an existing PDF (given as a URL) with a user password (required to open) and an optional owner password (controls permissions). Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /pdfsharp/password.
```

### `api2pdf_compress_pdf`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Compress an existing PDF (given as a URL) to reduce its file size. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /pdfsharp/compress.
```

### `api2pdf_convert_to_markdown`

- The name "api2pdf_convert_to_markdown" says "convert": a word for a change.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Convert a document or file (given as a URL — PDF, Office docs, and more) to Markdown text via MarkItDown. Great for feeding a document's contents back to an agent. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /markitdown.
```

### `api2pdf_delete_file`

- The name "api2pdf_delete_file" says "delete": a word for removing or ending something.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Delete a previously generated file by its ResponseId (the `ResponseId` returned in a generation response). Api2Pdf API: DELETE /file/{ResponseId}.
```

### `api2pdf_extract_pages`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Extract a range of pages from an existing PDF (given as a URL) into a new PDF. `start`/`end` are 0-based page indices; omit `end` to extract a single page. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /pdfsharp/extract-pages.
```

### `api2pdf_generate_barcode`

- The name "api2pdf_generate_barcode" says "generate": a word for a change.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Generate a barcode or QR code image. `format` is the symbology (e.g. 'QRCode', 'Code128', 'PDF417', 'DataMatrix') and `value` is the string to encode. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h) by default, or base64 with output_binary:true. BILLED. Api2Pdf API: GET /zebra.
```

### `api2pdf_html_to_image`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Render an HTML string to an image using headless Chrome. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h) by default, or base64 bytes with output_binary:true. BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /chrome/image/html.
```

### `api2pdf_html_to_pdf`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Render an HTML string to a PDF using the headless-Chrome engine. Returns a { FileUrl } link (valid ~24h) by default. Great for invoices, reports, and letters produced as HTML. BILLED per document. Api2Pdf API: POST /chrome/pdf/html.
```

### `api2pdf_markdown_to_pdf`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Render a Markdown string to a PDF using headless Chrome. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /chrome/pdf/markdown.
```

### `api2pdf_merge_pdfs`

- The name "api2pdf_merge_pdfs" says "merge": a word for a change that another call does not undo.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Merge several existing PDFs (given as URLs, in order) into a single PDF. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /pdfsharp/merge.
```

### `api2pdf_office_to_pdf`

- The description's first verb is "convert": a word for a change.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Convert an office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODT, and many more) at a URL to a PDF using LibreOffice. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /libreoffice/any-to-pdf.
```

### `api2pdf_url_to_image`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Take a screenshot of a live web page by URL using headless Chrome. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /chrome/image/url.
```

### `api2pdf_url_to_pdf`

- The description's first verb is "fetch": a word for reading.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a web page by URL and render it to a PDF using headless Chrome. Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). Use extraHTTPHeaders to pass auth for a protected page. BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /chrome/pdf/url.
```

### `api2pdf_wkhtml_to_pdf`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it destructive (destructiveHint: true).

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Render an HTML string to a PDF using the wkhtmltopdf engine — an alternate to Chrome that supports a table of contents (pass enableToc / tocOptions inside `options`). Returns a { FileUrl } (valid ~24h). BILLED. Api2Pdf API: POST /wkhtml/pdf/html.
```

## Only reads (2)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `api2pdf_get_balance`

- The name "api2pdf_get_balance" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the remaining balance / usage for the configured Api2Pdf account. Api2Pdf API: GET /balance.
```

### `api2pdf_get_status`

- The name "api2pdf_get_status" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Return the current Api2Pdf service / health status. Api2Pdf API: GET /status.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `api2pdf`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_get_balance",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_get_status"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": [
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_html_to_pdf",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_url_to_pdf",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_markdown_to_pdf",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_html_to_image",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_url_to_image",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_wkhtml_to_pdf",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_office_to_pdf",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_merge_pdfs",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_compress_pdf",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_extract_pages",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_add_password",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_convert_to_markdown",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_generate_barcode",
      "mcp__api2pdf__api2pdf_delete_file"
    ]
  }
}
```